Re: 971125: Problems compiling netcdf3.3.1

>To: address@hidden
>From: Pedro Diegues <address@hidden>
>Subject: Problems compiling netcdf3.3.1
>Organization: ICAT, Faculty of Sciences, University Of Lisbon
>Keywords: 199711251804.LAA12967

Hi,

> I am having problems with the compilation of netcdf using the c++
> interface. I have gather all the info you might need (i hope).
>
> My compilers are Fortran ver. 4.0 and C/C++ ver 4.2.
> 
> VERSION > 3.3.1
> uname -a > SunOS Meteosun 5.5.1 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
> f77 is /opt/SUNWspro/bin/f77
> cc is a tracked alias for /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc
> CC is /opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC

We have tested netCDF version 3.3.1 under SunOS 5.6 and SunOS 5.5.1
earlier using these versions of the compilers, and cannot duplicate the
link errors you are seeing:

>    Undefined                       first referenced
>     symbol                             in file
>    __0fOunsafe_ostreamHdo_opfxv        libnetcdf_c++.a(ncvalues.o)
>    cout                                nctst.o
>    __0OnwUi                            libnetcdf_c++.a(netcdf.o)
>    ...

Have you successfully compiled, linked, and run any other C++ programs
with this compiler?  There may be a problem in the way it was installed,
because the list of unsatisfied externals include "cout" which is just
the standard output stream that should be defined by including
<stream.h>.  Can you compile, link, and run the following two-line C++
program successfully?

#include <stream.h>
main() {cout << "Hello, world\n";}

If not, then try to get that to work first, before installing and
testing the C++ interface.

If that doesn't solve the problem, we will need a little more information:

 1. The output from running the "configure" script.  To get this, go to
    the netcdf-3.3.1/src/ directory and invoke the following commands:

       rm config.cache
       ./configure > configure.out

    then send the contents of the "configure.out" file.  For
    comparison, I've appended the output we get on our SunOS 5.6
    system.

 2. The output from trying to compile the C++ interface.  To get this,
    go to the netcdf-3.3.1/src/cxx/ directory and invoke the following
    command:

       make clean all test > make.out

    and send the contents of the make.out file.  Again, for comparison
    I've appended what we get.


--Russ
_____________________________________________________________________

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu

------- output from configure script under SunOS 5.6 ----------
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for m4... m4
checking for xlc... no
checking for c89... c89
checking C compiler... works
checking how to make dependencies... cc -xM
checking for CC... CC
checking C++ compiler "CC"... works
checking how to run the C preprocessor... c89 -E
checking for f77... f77
checking for FORTRAN .F compiler... 
checking if FORTRAN compiler handles *.F files... yes
checking for C-equivalent to FORTRAN routine "SUB"... sub_
checking for FORTRAN "byte"... yes
checking for FORTRAN "integer*2"... yes
checking if FORTRAN "byte" is C "signed char"... yes
checking if FORTRAN "byte" is C "short"... no
checking if FORTRAN "byte" is C "int"... no
checking if FORTRAN "integer*2" is C "short"... yes
checking if FORTRAN "integer*2" is C "int"... no
checking if FORTRAN "integer" is C "int"... yes
checking if FORTRAN "real" is C "float"... yes
checking if FORTRAN "doubleprecision" is C "double"... yes
checking for FORTRAN-equivalent to netCDF "byte"... byte
checking for FORTRAN-equivalent to netCDF "short"... integer*2
checking for math library
checking for -lc... no
checking for -lm... yes
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for ftruncate... yes
checking for st_blksize in struct stat... yes
checking whether cross-compiling... no
checking for IEEE floating point format... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for off_t... yes
checking for ssize_t... yes
checking for ptrdiff_t... yes
checking for uchar... no
checking whether char is unsigned... no
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking size of short... 2
checking size of int... 4
checking size of long... 4
checking size of float... 4
checking size of double... 8
checking size of off_t... 4
checking size of size_t... 4
checking for catman... catman
checking for manual-page index command... catman -w -M $(MANDIR)
checking binary distribution directory... /home/ftp/pub/binary/sunos_5.6-sparc
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating macros.make
udcreating fortran/nfconfig.inc
fortran/nfconfig.inc is unchanged
creating libsrc/ncconfig.h
libsrc/ncconfig.h is unchanged

------- output from "make clean all test" in cxx directory under SunOS 5.6 
----------
rm -f *.o *.a *.so *.sl *.i *.Z core nctst test.out example.nc  *.cps *.dvi 
*.fns  *.log *~ *.gs *.aux *.cp *.fn *.ky *.pg *.toc *.tp *.vr
CC -c -O -I../libsrc  -DNDEBUG netcdf.cc
CC -c -O -I../libsrc  -DNDEBUG ncvalues.cc
ar cru libnetcdf_c++.a netcdf.o ncvalues.o
ranlib libnetcdf_c++.a
CC -c -O -I../libsrc  -DNDEBUG nctst.cc
CC -o nctst -I../libsrc  -DNDEBUG -O  nctst.o libnetcdf_c++.a -L../libsrc 
-lnetcdf 
./nctst > test.out
*** C++ test successful ***